- Terris Moore
Terris Moore (
April 11 ,1908 ,Haddonfield, New Jersey —November 7 ,1993 ,Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an explorer, mountaineer, light plane pilot, and the second president of theUniversity of Alaska .Moore attended schools in Haddonfield, Philadelphia and New York, and was a graduate of
Williams College in Massachusetts. He then received anMBA and the degree of Doctor of Commercial Science from the Harvard School of Business Administration. He taught atUCLA for two years, then returned toBoston to author textbooks on taxes and work as a financial consultant.Moore's career as a mountaineer started early, with an ascent of
Chimborazo and the first ascent ofSangay , both in theAndes ofEcuador , in 1927. In the early 1930s, he made the first ascents ofMount Bona andMount Fairweather , both major Alaskan peaks, with Allen Carpé, and he also made the first unguided ascent ofMount Robson in theCanadian Rockies .These ascents led to his most famous climb, the first ascent (with Richard Burdsall) of
Minya Konka , a convert|7556|m|ft|0|lk=on peak inSichuan ,China . Their small party (also including Arthur Emmons and Jack Young) also carefully surveyed the peak and settled a controversy about its height. In making the ascent the summit pair climbed thousands of feet higher than any other Americans had previously.During
World War II Moore served as a consultant to the U.S. military on arctic and mountain conditions, and as a member of the Alaskan Test Expedition in 1942. In that capacity he made the third ascent ofMount McKinley . After the war, he was president of the New England Society of Natural History, which was deeply enmeshed with theBoston Museum of Science , headed byBradford Washburn , also a noted climber of Alaskan peaks.Moore served three years as the president of the University of Alaska, starting in 1949, and during that time he also established records for high-altitude airplane landings.
References
* Robert H. Bates, "Terris Moore", "
American Alpine Journal ", 1994, pp. 317-319.
* R. Burdsall, T. Moore, A. Emmons, and J. Young, "Men Against The Clouds" (revised edition), The Mountaineers, 1980.
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